We have had many threads with advice for beginners. Here is a site with lots of ideas (but, mostly Roman): http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ and here...
I started this thread with the title "How we detect fakes." I meant, as I said, the "we" to be those of us on the Yahoo CoinForgeryDiscussionList...
I ran across this old thread and see I never answered the question. At the time, maybe I didn't want to show you this mistake. [ATTACH] Yes,...
There were quite a few votes that the OP piece was a low-value coin....
That is a good video with nice images of what is still there. Here is a small coin of DIVVS ROMVLVS. [ATTACH] Romulus, d. 309, coin struck c....
Very nice! I knew I couldn't be the first to discover the attraction of this unusual type.
Here is an unusual type: [ATTACH] Faustina II, wife of Marcus Aurelius Denarius. 18 mm. Struck c 176 as DIVA Faustina Jr. died at Halala in...
I'd say the Postumus alone was worth that! Nice pickup!
I have a page of $5-$15 ancient coins: http://augustuscoins.com/inexpensive.html Today I put 17 Byzantine coins on it. I deleted many that had...
I think it is highly likely they were from the same engraver. Issues of Greek copper coins were not so large that they needed a huge mint with...
On the other hand, I know an author who wrote a good book about his specialty which he had collected for many years. Then he sold his collection...
This thread is wonderful, with many posters offering excellent advice that I could only second. For example, @TIF has defined a mini-collection...
@Granbeck , when I am on the main page: https://www.cointalk.com/forums/ancients/ the top of the page looks like this: [ATTACH] See where it...
Edessa in Mesopotamia struck a sestertius-sized provincial coin showing Gordian III seated on a sella curulis, up on a dais, receiving Abgar...
[ATTACH] Price greatly reduced! Hardcover. This book costs $395.94 in hardcover on Amazon. No copies are on vcoins. It is the bible of the...
Here is a beautiful Greek silver in good metal: [ATTACH] Silver. 13-12 mm. Mysia, Parion. 2.29 grams. Gorgon/Medusa head facing, tongue...
@dougsmit , I like your idea. I just went to my profile page and aded in a bit, not very specific. I hope others choose to fill out enough in...
Here is a Kingdom of the Bosporus coin of Rheskuporis V (AD 314/5 - c. 342) [Some authors number him "VI"]: [ATTACH] Much of his name is on the...
Here is a 12-11 mm "bronze half": [ATTACH] Head of Demetrius right wearing Corinthian helmet with bull's horn (weak, straight up above the ear)...
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